COMPREDICT was founded in 2016 in Darmstadt and offers a purely software-based solution to predict failures of automotive components. COMPREDICT’s load & lifetime monitoring acquires the dynamic components loads by sensor fusion and accumulates the induced partial damages in real-time. The application-oriented, easily adaptable and reliable lifetime monitoring system does not require any additional hardware and is based on already available vehicle sensors and signals running on the vehicle bus, such as a Controller Area Network (CAN). Furthermore, the amount of generated data is kept low, and the limited computing power and storage capacity of standard Electronic Control Units (ECU) are considered, so that the system can be implemented in all vehicles without any special expense. By going beyond the vehicle level and considering the complete vehicle fleet, the possibility of a continuous optimization procedure on basis of the load & lifetime monitoring system emerges for a better control of user profile discrepancies customer-optimized lightweight design, cost-efficiency and improved resource management. For this solution we were rewarded in 2016 by MAGNA with the Johann Puch Award. In 2017 we were the only Startup to win a main prize and the special prize at the “Gründerwettbewerb” organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.